class – time is the answer

2023-05-282023-06-14

Reasons for Using C++ 17

Using the logic that we should use tools that are as simple as possible and only adopt complexity where it is absolutely necessary, it feels like I could use a very early version of C++. What follows are the reasons why I have increased that to C++17. The idea will be to only use these feature and no more. Any new use will be add to this page.

#if !((defined(_MSVC_LANG) && _MSVC_LANG >= 201703L) || __cplusplus >= 201703L)
    #error Requires C++17 or higher
#endif

2021-05-162023-06-14

Easy to Make Mistakes in Class Inheritance

This started out as a task to learn simple class inheritance. To work out the syntax and idiomatic way to use them in C++. I just kept typing things that I thought would work and the compiler would slowly teach me what was wrong.

class rectangle : public shape
{
public:
    rectangle(float half) : shape(half)

2021-04-292023-06-14

Asking Stack Overflow the best way to do Template Specialisation

In learning C++ I dug in and tried to use classes and templates to solve what feels like a typical use case. I found that what I needed was Template Specialisation and that C++ does not support this very well. I came up with 3 different methods and wanted to check what others though was we the best approach. If there was a “preferred idiom in C++”, or an even better solution.